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branching organics

branching organics

2004-05-25 - By Thomas Shaw

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Hello again. Hope you are all having wonderful days.

In class the other week, we had to recreate a still life photograph. It was
just your basic wine glass, brass jar with grapes on top, lemon and tomato
sort of thing.

It was all fine until I tried to do the tomatoes on a vine. The scene has 3
tomatoes that are still connected by the vine the y grew out of. I had
erroneously assumed that I could do the cool thing that I learned from
Softimage 3D years ago: make a series of circles with the same number of
vertices and then click each one, in the order you want Soft to create the
mesh. This would create a mesh out of the circles that would be nice and
branchy and perfect.

Does XSI not do anything like that? What is the best way to create a vine
growth or tree branch-like thing? I tried just straight up modeling on a
tube primitive, but it was really hard for me to get a nice, even outgrowth
of the main stem.

Ps. Is it allowed to attach files to the list serv messages? It would have
been easier to explain if you could see the photo we worked with..

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Hello again. Hope you are all having
wonderful days.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

In class the other week, we had to
recreate a still life photograph. It was just your basic wine glass, brass jar
with grapes on top, lemon and tomato sort of thing. <o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

It was all fine until I tried to do the
tomatoes
on a vine. The scene has 3 tomatoes that are still connected by the vine the y
grew out of. I had erroneously assumed that I could do the cool thing that I
learned from Softimage 3D years ago: make a series of circles with the same
number of vertices and then click each one, in the order you want Soft to
create the mesh. This would create a mesh out of the circles that would be nice
and branchy and perfect.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

Does XSI not do anything like that? What
is the best way to create a vine growth or tree branch-like thing?  I
tried just straight up modeling on a tube primitive, but it was really hard for
me to get a nice, even outgrowth of the main stem.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

Ps. Is it allowed to attach files to the
list serv messages? It would have been easier to explain if you could see the
photo we worked with..<o:p></o:p>

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